Great home for comfort in Mendon

A spacious Colonial on a country road in Mendon has easy access to Interstate 495. Its updated kitchen includes a breakfast bar looking into a dining area with a wood stove that flows into a large family room with a cathedral ceiling and a pellet stove. A charming sunroom provides access to an in-ground, solar he...

A charming saltbox Colonial tucked into Mendon’s tree-lined Neck Hill Road offers a perfect home for raising children, keeping your own grown children and their kids close or throwing parties.

A large family room with a cathedral ceiling makes for a terrific place to gather and enjoy each other. It truly deserves the moniker the Great Room. A three-season sunroom allows you to feel close to nature when you want to be out of the sun or rain or don’t want to contend with bugs at dusk. And an in-ground, solar-heated pool will keep family and friends happy all day long from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

“This is a kid-friendly house,” said the seller, who has enjoyed her grandchildren throughout the summers in the house and now has to console them as she sells it.

The house offers 2,927 square feet of living space (including 463 square-feet of finished and nearly finished basement area) and sits on a 1.51-acre lot with a spacious backyard, next to the fenced-in pool. The house is listed by Lisa Paulette of Coldwell Banker for $420,000.

Off the front foyer to the left, there’s a spacious room with hardwood floors, a ceiling fan and a small, attached room through an archway that has generous closet space. The main room has two doors, each with an elegant glass panel that has beveled lines creating the sense of windowpanes. This combined room is currently being used as an office, and makes a great getaway from all the activity going on in the back of the house. The room could be converted into a large bedroom, which would work well since there is a full bath just outside it.

The bath has a vanity sink, a molded plastic tub and shower and a window with blinds that faces into the dining room.

To the right of the foyer, there’s a room with hardwood floor and a ceiling fan—ceiling fans make an elegant and very practical motif throughout the house. This room could be used as a small formal living room, a comfortable den or a library.

At the center of the house is a large, updated kitchen with light-colored Silestone counters, many white cabinets and stainless Maytag appliances—an electric flattop range with a microwave set above it in the cabinets, a dishwasher and a wide refrigerator with French doors on top and slide-out freezer compartment on the bottom. With the freezer compartment at children’s height, the seller said that Popsicles disappear without her even realizing it, keeping the kids happy. There’s also a pantry.

One side of the kitchen has a large, wide opening that looks over a breakfast bar into the dining room. The other side has a tall, square pass-through over the kitchen sink into the Great Room. These openings are not only practical, but create a feeling of tremendous flow between the rooms and allow the chef to keep an eye on the children.

Page 2 of 3 - The 25-by-24-foot Great Room has four wooden beams running across the cathedral ceiling and two ceiling fans as well as a built-in wall air-conditioning unit. Light flows into the room through a set of three side-by-side windows on the two sidewalls, a set of two, large side-by-side windows at the end with a big half-circle widow above them and two skylights. The rectangular windows have top-down, bottom-up blinds.

In a corner, at the back end of the Great Room, there’s a pellet stove set on a brick hearth. During the winter, it serves as a strong heat supplement for the whole first floor, and it keeps the Great Room toasty. The seller orders a ton of pellets for $250 that lasts the winter, and feeds a 40-pound bag of pellets into the stove every day.

The Great Room has wall-to-wall carpeting. It opens through a large archway into a lovely dining room that has a wood stove inserted into a brick fireplace, two side-by-side windows and the same ceramic tile floor as the kitchen. A door with glass windowpanes opens into the three-season sunroom. It has a series of windows that wrap around the two sides of the room that face out, hardwood floors, a wainscoting of wide, wood planks and a ceiling of narrow, wood planks. The brick back of the dining room fireplace and chimney forms a large part of one wall of the sunroom. Looking out into the woods on the side of the house, you will feel like you’re sitting on a porch of a summerhouse in the Adirondacks.

The Great Room, dining room, and sunroom all look out on a patio with a brick walkway and the pool below with a cabana next to it. No doubt a lot of living takes place between the kitchen, these three rooms and the swimming pool.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, all with ceiling fans, and one full bathroom. The master bedroom (with no master bath) has hardwood floors, a built-in wall air conditioner, a large walk-in closet and a second closet with sliding doors and an entrance at the back of the closet into an attic space that’s ideal for storing lightweight things.

The other two bedrooms are carpeted. The full bath has a vanity sink with a dark wood cabinet beneath it and a molded plastic bath and shower.

The basement has one fully finished room that could be used as a den, office or playroom, and a partially finished room with wall-to-wall carpeting that only needs electric baseboard heating added. It has double doors opening into the two-car garage with an electric door opener. A third room has connections for a washer and dryer and offers plenty of storage space.

The house has three zones of hot-water-baseboard heat supplied by an oil furnace. The electrical service is 200 amps. The house has well water with a water-softening device, a security system and a sprinkler system for the yard. A new roof was put on 7 years ago.

Page 3 of 3 - The property has easy access to Interstate 495.

For more information or to see the house, contact real estate agent Lisa Paulette of Coldwell Banker at 617-967-5890.